[centerchannel68]

You guys are a bunch of pyschos.

[sek929]

Last spring i was standing on my front porch observing a rather sweet thunderstorm with my buddy Brian.

All over the sky bolts of lighting spider webbed around us, it was pretty intense.

Then, at the same time, we turned our focus 90º counterclockwise down the street (away from the sky as well) and a bolt of lighting smacked a telephone pole about 50 feet away.

The bolt hit directly in our new field of vision milliseconds after we cast our gaze at the same time down from the sky and up the street without any sort of collaboration. Even minutes afterwards I had a strange tingling in my neck.

The bolt scared the living hell out of me, sounded like a bomb exploding.

Still, we both looked at the same odd angle down the street at the same time, fractions of a second before the bolt hit.

Would that amount of built up energy actual register somewhere in the brain? I think so.

[malvolio]

I've had some powerful lucid dreams where I'm flying (just me, no airplane or glider or anything).
I've had some weird inexplicable stuff happen to me as well, but only before the acid wore off.

[phantomdragonz]

Originally Posted by sek929 

Would that amount of built up energy actual register somewhere in the brain? I think so.

in your ears... read up on how lightning works and you will learn that the ground sends up streamers/leaders that if big enough will allow the bolt to follow it's lower resistance to the ground, you probably heard it but did not realize it, then BOOM it got a bolt...

I remember seeing a picture of a tree getting hit and a telephone pole had a streamer going up...

edit: here is a good link for describing it.
JetStream MAX - An Online School for Weather: The Lightning Process: Keeping in Step

Zach

[sek929]

I understand how lightning works, but I still doubt I was able to perceive the streamer and react to it's location in time. Our gaze was shifted before anything our senses could normally pick up happened.